Reported Speech
English Reported Speech is surely one of the most misunderstood and abused facets in the English Language. The grammar used for Reported Speech is even maltreated by people using it as their first language, especially in movies. Even teaching Reported Speech has become a challenge because learners would disagree with the proper English grammar used for Reported Speech and would state that “it doesn’t sound right”! With the T4E model, though, there is very little room for error when it comes to teaching or using English Reported Speech properly. The T4E model restores the dignity that belongs to using Reported Speech as it should be with regards to the English grammar involved.
In the e-book T4E, you will find a solution to an age-old problem: teaching or studying tenses effectively. Tenses do not only comprise of the names of the tenses past, perfect and future - it entail how to change a sentence into a question or negative; which question tag to add to a sentence; to change a sentence into a passive and active voice; how to report what someone else had said - reported speech; finally how to express the probability for something to happen - 'if sentences'.
A master of tenses will correctly combine the verbs, auxiliary verbs (helping verbs) and time words, thus providing the needed context.
T4E
In the e-book T4E, you will find a solution to an age-old problem: teaching or studying tenses effectively. Tenses do not only comprise of the names of the tenses - past, perfect and future - it entail how to change a sentence into a question or negative; which question tag to add to a sentence; to change a sentence into a passive and active voice; how to report what someone else had said - reported speech; finally how to express the probability for something to happen - 'if sentences'.
A master of tenses will correctly combine the verbs, auxiliary verbs (helping verbs) and time words, thus providing and conveying the needed context. Eventually, this is what tenses are all about: conveying and providing relevant context.
In this book, you will find supplements which go beyond the scope of tenses. He touches on the Articulation of specific difficult sounds in English. Singulars and Plurals are dealt with in another supplement, and then he shares 5 steps to follow for the effective analysis of any poem.
Jan can be contacted for training conferences in which he deals with the teaching of English tenses according to the T4E model he has developed.
Printed book on T4E
Besides the e-book, a printed version of T4E will also be available soon. Contact us for orders.